BURKE v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY (1914)

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BURKE v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
Term: 1913
Important Dates
Argued: January 13, 1913
Decided: June 22, 1914
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
8-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

BURKE v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 22, 1914. The case was argued before the court on January 13, 1913.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the California U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of California.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state and territorial land claims
  • Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 234 U.S. 669
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Willis Van Devanter

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as liberal.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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